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{ Daily Archives } Tuesday, July 2007

OpenXML - How should the BSI vote? - Part 2

In Part 1, we got as far as noting that the vote should clearly be “No with comments”. MS representatives may try to push “Yes with comments”, but that really amounts to an unconditional “Yes” and should be resisted. So the main issue is what comments should be included and what BSI should require (in […]

OpenXML - How should the BSI vote? - Part 1

This morning sees the final meeting of IST/41/-/1, the ad hoc technical committee formed to carry out a technical review of the OpenXML standard and make recommendations to IST/41. This afternoon, IST/41 meets to consider the technical committee’s report and maybe make a recommendation to IST/-/1, which is the body that actually decides how BSI […]